1930 Bronze So-Called Dollar HK-459, Pacific American Int'l Expo

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HK-459 advertises an exposition that never happened. The Pacific American International Exposition was to be held in Portland, Oregon, in 1930; its company was chartered on March 11, 1925, but the drive for public subscriptions failed, the Depression of late 1929 apparently finished it, and the state dissolved the corporation at the end of 1945. Hibler and Kappen call the medal a relic piece, struck from metal of the battleship Oregon, which was berthed in Portland as a museum after World War I. The obverse shows a woman between two men striding toward a setting sun over the ocean, with the ribbon "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way"; the reverse pictures the battleship and a rowboat with "Bulldog of the Navy." Bronze, 34 mm.

Cross References

HK-459; PCGS #643987; NGC #850755